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India and Russia both get gold medals at chess championship after two Indian players lose their internet connection in final Nihal Sarin, 16, and Divya Deshmukh, 14, fell victim to ‘global internet outage’ They were one of 160 countries competing in the Chess Olympiad held online They were forced to forfeit after loosing connection, but India … Read more
Justin Bieber and wife Hailey Baldwin Bieber continue their isolation out on a tranquil lake with their pooch along with playing a game of chess By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 01:39 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 12:35 BST, 5 April 2020 During this time of social distancing and self-isolation, Justin and Hailey Bieber … Read more
Two young Ukrainian chess stars have died in Moscow from a suspected overdose of laughing gas. Stanislav Bogdanovich, 26, a grandmaster, was his country’s former quick chess champion and his death came soon after he had controversially played online for Russia against Ukraine. His girlfriend Aleksandra Vernigora, 18, also a chess professional, was a student … Read more
MEMOIR THE MOVES THAT MATTER by Jonathan Rowson (Bloomsbury £20, 352pp) Grandmaster chess is associated in the public’s mind with disproportionate levels of eccentricity, or even insanity. This is a statistically invalid cliché created by journalists who don’t have a passion for the game themselves and therefore can’t understand why others would devote their lives … Read more
CHESS Checkmate! by Sally Landau (Elk and Ruby £17.99, 223 pp) No one said it was easy to be married to a genius. Especially one with appalling medical problems. Yet that was Sally Landau’s choice. In 1959, at the age of 19, she married Mikhail ‘Misha’ Tal. A year later he was to become, at … Read more